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Why do planets revolve around the sun?

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The mass of the sun is around 99.9% of the mass of the solar system, i.e., the force of attraction between the planet and sun is more compared to that between different planets. Due to this gravitational attractive force between planets and the sun, the planets are revolving around the sun. 69. The escape velocity of an object on the moon is small due to its small mass. The velocity of the atmospheric air particle is greater than the escape velocity on the moon. So, there is no atmosphere on moon. The number of meteorites striking on the moon.s surface is quite large because moon has no atmosphere (air) to burn the falling meteorites by producing the frictional heat. On the other hand, the earth has an atmosphere containing air, so many of the meteorites burn up completely on entering the earth.s atmosphere due to the heat produced by friction between falling meteorite and air.
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